Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-05-16
BLACK EYE FOR MONOPOLY
MATTHEWS, OF BUFFALO, DEALS THE
EFFECTIVE BLOW.
Standard OIL Men Found Guilty of Con-
spiraey to Down a Competing Firm by
Crooked Means-One of the Original
Defendants Expresses Himself with Wig
or and Bitterness.

Crooked Means-One of the Original
Defendants Expresses Himself with Wig
or and Bitterness.
BUFFALO. n Y May 16-The oil COM
pany case was given to the jury Saturday at
q p m. The judge in his charge excluded all
the references to the Standard Oil company,
and said that the question was whether Ever
est and Miller had entered into an unlawful
conspiracy TO blow up the works of the Buff
falo Lubricating Oil company, and whether
an attempt to carry out the agreement had
been made
The jury did not agree upon a verdict until
Sunday morning, and when they filed intn
the courtroom large number of spectators
were present. The expectation of almost
everybody in town had been that the jury
would either aequit Or disagree, and, conse-
quently, when the foreman announced, after
the usual mterrogatories by the court, that a
verdict of guilty had been agreed upon there
was muIInur of astonIshment in the room.
A good deal of money had been laid at odds
that no verdict of guilty would be reached
Court Immediately adjourned, the jury being
discharged.
The Eyerests. defendants, appeared to he
very much surprised and dismayed on hear
ing the verdict, Charles B. Matthews, the
complainant, on the contrary, heing unable
to restrain his delight He was subsequently
interviewed by The Chicago Herald CORE
spondent regarding the case, and said: n
was not at all surprised at the verdict; any
jury OF honest men would have decided in the
s;tme way. This Standard Oil company
~
one of the finest organizations that ever ex-
iste.i They may kill, but they can't scare
me Some of their witnesses committed the
| most barefaced perjury, notably W. T.
Golfer, OF Philadelphia He swore | said
| was trying to force the Standard company to
buy me out, even going the length
| OF repeating what he called NV
exact language. Now, / never saw Colter
but once III my life, and then we talked fol
about five minutes about patent" MIR
| Matthews then declared that Golfer had tt,,r
| guilty NJ some shady practices, which hi
| tMatthewsl described, and proceeded: 9TH,
| trial has cost the people 81 800 but the Stand
ard company has spent not less than 500,
| ON" He also asserted that an attempt had
been made to get Miller, the principal witnes,
I
| proof vi his statement was now i'll his posses
Sion Had Capt Mack, the STANDARD com
pauys detective, been put on the stand, h,
said, the whole story would have come out
| hut the defendants were afraid To call hin
| a. d witness
| John II. Archbold one of the original Fl y.
defendants, and member of the STANDARD
| Oh company, was subsequently seen bv tn
| correspondent, and said: at must be con
ftsS,,l that feel very bitterly over thi
| verdict. 1t was entirely against the evidence
and against Judge Haights charge to tn
jury. 1t eau not he that iii this free countr,
| it Is IA crime to make success in business.
can assure Non that we shall give our atten
| ton to this tqtSe. and that such verdict vii
| never lie followed by the infection OF sentence
unless the goddess of justice has le,ome entirel
| blind Ia Il righteous cause The case brough
by tins man Matthews WAS one of simpl
| blackInaIl He has become mouonanic o.
thu. smbIett, and actually believes what h
SAYS He conceived the idea of selling hi
useless and unl,eefied plant to us at an es
orbitant figure am going to New York t.
| night, buI Mr. BACON will te UP from Rocf
ester, and then our attorneys will decide wha
| KIND ot ii mutIon tO make in the court to
morrow TIE cider Everest is in feebl
health, and to-day the Is Frustrated. He ha
| lived top long in Rochester to have such
pIulta hyPocrite this wicked Matthews d,
ceNe dnybndy as 10 Ills character"